In recent years works such as Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea, J.M.
Coetzee's Foe and Peter Carey's Jack Maggs, which 'write back' to
classic English texts, have attracted considerable attention as
offering a paradigm for the relationship between post-colonial
writing and the 'canon'. Thieme's study provides a broad overview
of such writing, focusing both on responses to texts that have
frequently been associated with the colonial project or the
construction of 'race' (The Tempest, Robinson Crusoe, Heart of
Darkness and Othello) and texts where the interaction between
culture and imperialism is slightly less overt (Great Expectations,
Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights). The post-colonial con-texts
examined are located within their particular social and cultural
backgrounds with emphasis on the different forms their responses to
their pre-texts take and the extent to which they create their own
discursive space. Using Edward Said's models of filiative
relationships and affiliative identifications, the book argues that
'writing back' is seldom adversarial, rather that it operates along
a continuum between complicity and oppositionality that dismantles
hierarchical positioning. It also suggests that post-colonial
appropriations of canonical pre-texts frequently generate
re-readings of their 'originals'. It concludes by considering the
implications of this argument for discussions of identity politics
and literary genealogies more generally. Authors examined include
Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Kamau Brathwaite, Peter Carey, J.M.
Coetzee, Robertson Davies, Wilson Harris, Elizabeth Jolley, Robert
Kroetsch, George Lamming, Margaret Laurence, Pauline Melville, V.S.
Naipaul, Caryl Phillips, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Jean Rhys, Salman
Rushdie, Djanet Sears, Sam Selvon, Olive Senior, Jane Urquhart and
Derek Walcott.>
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